But the parallels are all in place: animals marching 2×2, flood, ongoing rain. Really? Yes, it’s happening now, at the Roosevelt Park Zoo in North Dakota. MINOT, N.D. — As a historic flood threatened to drown this city, the animals from the local zoo were evacuated to a warehouse high above the valley floor. There [...]
“Questo pomodoro avrà più fans di Silvio Berlusconi.” There was no mincing words on 12-13 june 2011 when 95% of Italy said one big “No” to Silvio Berlusconi’s government and four big “Sí’s” to referendums. Illustration on website home page: © 2011 Janet Giampietro. La Bocca della Veritá image is in public domain.
As the curious g readers know, I’m all about the pyramids. But that food pyramid we’ve been looking at for decades – did anyone really get anything more from that overstriped graphic besides indigestion? If you did, did you follow it? Probably not. That’s why the US Department of Agriculture introduced a new icon as [...]
